I'm talking a level of control that would make the liberal conception of Stalin blush.

Context? Material conditions? Up to you. Maybe you just finished leading the revolution to victory, maybe you got :vote:d into this position, maybe you just woke up in another timeline, I don't care

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    3 years ago

    Constitutions in socialist countries come about through processes of mass consultation with the people, with suggestions from the people incorporated into the final draft. Bluntly importing a nearly hundred year old constitution with minor edits won’t work at all.

    That 85 year old document is infinitely better than any constitution the West has produced. Using it as the foundation to a modern American constitution would progress the rights and material conditions of the workers to a degree not seen since the emancipation proclamation

    Just because something is old does not mean it is antiquated.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      3 years ago

      Nothing you said negates my point. Regardless of how great the Soviet constitution was, the process of forming a new socialist American constitution can't simply be copying it with minor alterations. It can be presented to the American peoples as a potential model, but it's up to them to accept or reject it, and to form a constitution based on a democratic process of mass consultation.

        • HarryLime [any]
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          3 years ago

          I'm sorry if I came off as attacking you. I don't mean to upset you.

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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            3 years ago

            Sorry for snapping, the forced overtime I've been on has been getting me really frayed lately.